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PJ.767.087
18 Jun 1767:32 (1280)
By authority. For the benefit of Mrs. Douglass. By the
American Company, at the new theatre, in Southwark, this
present Thursday, the eighteenth of June, will be presented,
a tragedy called
The Roman Father.
The Roman Father by Mr. Hallam, Publius Horatius by Mr.
Douglass, Tullus Hostilius by Mr. Allyn, Valerius by Mr.
Wall, citizens by Mr. Morris, Mr. Greville, Mr. Woolls, and
Mr. Platt Valeria by Mrs. Douglass, Horatia by Miss Cheer.
In act IV. a grand procession of Roman youths and virgins,
with an ovation, for Publius's victory over the curiatii.
The vocal parts by Mr. Woolls, Miss Wainwright, Miss Hallam,
Mr. Wall, Mrs. Harman, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Wall, &c. with
entertainments, viz. end of the play, singing by Mr. Woolls
and Miss Wainwright, dancing by Mr. Mathews.
To which will be added, a farce called
Flora, or Hob in the Well.
The parts of Hob and Flora by Mr. and Mrs. Parker, from the
theatre in Jamaica, a prologue will be spoken by Mr. Parker,
in the character of a country boy.
To begin exactly at half an hour after seven o'clock.---
Vivant Rex & Regina.
Tickets issued for Miss Hallam's benefit, which was
postponed on account of the weather, will be admitted this
night, if those ladies and gentlemen who may be possessed of
them, do not chuse to keep them till her night. The curtain
will positively be drawn up at half past seven, to what
company may then be in the house.
Tickets are sold at the London coffee-house, at Mr.
Hawkins's in Walnut-Street, at Mr. Frauncis's in Water-
Street, by Mrs. Douglass near the theatre, and at Mrs.
Scott's in Lombard-Street, at which last office, places in
the boxes may be taken. Box 7s. 6d Pit 5s. Gallery 3s.
Mrs. Douglass begs leave to acquaint the town that, the
ceremony of waiting on ladies and gentlemen with bills at
benefits, has been for some years laid aside in this
company: Instead of a mark of respect, which it was
originally designed, it has been often, and not without
reason, taken in the light of an importune solicitation,
equally painful to the friends of the theatre and the
performers. She, therefore, flatters herself, that this
circumstance alone, sufficiently points out the impropriety
of a personal application.
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